NO-UK submarine cable system hits 800-Gbps line rate via Ciena GeoMesh Extreme
The NO-UK submarine cable network that runs between Norway and the UK achieved an 800-Gbps line rate during a design and cable validation exercise, reports Ciena (NYSE: CIEN). The subsea system leverages Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme portfolio.
The NO-UK open submarine cable network comprises eight fiber pairs between Stavanger, Norway, and Newcastle, UK, via a 700 km route. Xtera supplied the system, with project management from SubSea Networks Ltd.
The NO-UK Com consortium behind the undersea cable includes Altibox Carrier as the operator, as well as Lyse, Haugaland Kraft, Eviny, Ryfylke IKS, Green Mountain, Polysys, and Hatteland Group. Through, Altibox Carrier, the consortium offers dark fiber and capacity backhaul routes to major PoPs in the Nordics or UK.
“NO-UK has been developed to support the evolving requirements of businesses in Norway. We wanted it to deliver the highest bandwidth and capacity available across a submarine network in a sustainable way, and Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme, combined with Xtera’s unique wide-bandwidth and low-noise repeater design, has achieved exactly that. The network has exceeded our expectations in every way and sets the standard for future connectivity between Norway and the UK,” asserted Svein Arild Ims, director at Altibox Carrier.
The GeoMesh Extreme elements Ciena supplied includes 6500 Packet-Optical Platforms that support up to 35 Tbps per fiber pair. The company says the design and cable validation exercise was conducted according to the new International Telecoms Union (ITU) submarine cable standard for open cables, ITU-T G.977.1.
Ciena also has supplied data center interconnect technology to Altibox Carrier in support of NO-UK (see "Altibox Carrier deploys 800G for data center interconnect via Ciena").
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